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Churchill it an infantry tank. The firefly is one of the best tanks in the game. it has weak armor, but a very powerful gun, with the best range of any tank. keep the firefly at long range . Heres a replay of some pros

The British tanks are all about combined arms. The Churchill is a damage soak with a reasonable anti-infantry gun -these tank classes benefit most from the life prolonging effects of "hull down" and "over-repair". Churchills should be used to push through light-medium defended areas whilst the more fragile Cromwells, Fireflys and infantry sections stay close behind.

Speaking of Cromwells, these tanks are pretty much jacks of all trades and masters of none. They're best treated like the USA's sherman (unupgraded). The firefly of the other hand should be treated like the Marder III or mobile arty: it should always have support and if it's taking direct fire you're doing something wrong.

Had a punt on this for £13 for the Relic pack on steam. Course, as soon as I connect to steam to start downloading my rate goes from 1000kbps to 250kbps. Fuck you Virgin and your shitty shitty internet!

I picked up Tales of Valor from steam as it was going for a reasonable price. It's good, but the single player missions are both short and very easy. The new units are worth a look, but it's hardly a new faction -they really are just minor additions. The new multiplayer modes are intriguing but I don't know anyone else who owns the exp pack, so they're not exactly great for me.

I'd be pissed off if I'd paid full price for it, but at half price it's a reasonable little pack. They really need to pull their fingers out and get on the fucking Russian addon though -I won't be buying any more packs that contain anything less.

Has there ever a been a game that is so determined not to let you play it? I thought I would try and get back into opposing fronts after shelving it when I found it not as accessible as the first title. I remember the first time it needed several huge patches before it would start up. Now coming back to it, I had to install a torrent client and download four more patches. one of which took several days(over a few sessions). It turns out that they have helpfully pre-installed tales of valor and the origianl campaign in case i feel tempted to puchase them digitally.

All good and well and all that, but I would have preferred to have just been able to play the game when I wanted to. (the game wouldn't start until all the patches had been downloaded. )

I just dusted my copy of Company of Heroes, only to find it wont start in Windows 7. the game process just kills itself. No error logging, nothing. Latest Direct X drivers installed, Latest Nvidia drivers installed. Windows 7 up-to-date. Tried running it in compatability mode.

I have the Steam copy. But am baffled why it wont boot.
Ive googled it, but not many people are having the same issue. Dam. Wanted to kill some Nazis